For some reason I am unable to play downloaded flash files, running Vector 7 Standard - have uninstalled xine and now reinstalled, but no joy - I don't seem to be able to play any downloaded video file, can play flash in firefox when visiting the website. A huge ask but any idea what I may have done of what I can do to restore my ability to play downloaded files?

I'm in the same boat. I used to be able to play anything with either xine or umplayer, but recently I've had all sorts of problems. I reinstalled Vector to be sure it wasn't an issue with my machine (I had a mixed system with some packages from testing, which I no longer have -- it's all stable now). Anyway, still I am having issues with multimedia.

Debug: MplayerProcess::parseLine: '/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'I've pointed out this error ad nauseam in a previous post. The result is a dark blank screen from UMPlayer (see attachment). Xine was unable to play the flv video (see xine_error.png and xine_error2.png). Xine begins to play the mp4 video, but then freezes two seconds into it (see screenshot "xine_error3.png). I could not close xine. It stayed open even after I closed the terminal that was running it and simply became a black screen. The terminal, before closing it, simply read:

can you try "mplayer filename.flv" I will try umplayer on the files i have later today.

Hi uelsk8s,

I tried some different files, and for the most part it does work (both mplayer and umplayer). Some files don't work, but most do (IE, the file I first tried did not work, but most others have). So, for the most part it seems to be fixed. So, thanks for looking into that.

I am afraid I reinstalled, wiping my home directory in the process (strange errors when I imported my profile when I tried to launch a graphical desktop - basically I couldn't - could only log on a root. So can't test this error at the moment... hopefully I will not replicate this.